Best Progress Meter?

[Bob Valentine]

Group:

I have been using Access' built-in Progress Meter, the one that displays in
the status bar at the bottom of the screen.

However, I would like to find a better Progress Meter to use in my
application. The ones I have tried to incorporate in my application don't
work properly. The Progress Meter form comes up on the screen, but it is
transparent (can't see the progress bar) until it reaches 100%. All that is
displayed is the outline of the form while the underlying forms and records
are being updated.

I am interested to know if anyone else is using a custom Progress Meter, and
if so, can you point me in the direction to where I might obtain the code
for the Progress Meter. Or is there one that I can buy to use in my
application?

Thanks,
BobV

 

[Cheryl Fischer]

You might want to download Progress Meter 2.0 by Access MVP Sandra Daigle
from:

http://www.daiglenet.com/MSAccess.htm

The samples are clear and easy to understand; I've incorporated some of
these in my apps successfully.

 

[Albert D. Kallal]

Give my bar a try.

It also allows you to give it a time value, and thus while your code is off
processing,the bar still progress on its own.

The bar is used in my word merge template. So, download the working word
merge example, and just try the word merge.

http://www.attcanada.net/~kallal.msn/msaccess/msaccess.html

 

[Bob Valentine]

Thanks to both Cheryl and to Albert for the responses. Your help is greatly
appreciated.

BobV